Chapter 3.6, Problem 3.24PP

Practice Problem 3.24 (solution page 335)

For C code having the general form

long loop_while(long a, long h)

{

long result = _____;

while (_____)

result = ____;

a = ______;

}

Return result;

}

GCC, run with command-line option -0g, produces the following code:

We can see that the compiler used a jump-to-middle translation, using the jmp instruction on line 3 to jump to the test starting with label. L2. Fill in the missing parts of the C code.